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Live coverage from a media briefing on the first results from ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission, held at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre on 7 June 2016.
Speakers: Fabio Favata, Head of the Coordination Office, ESA Directorate of Science; Paul McNamara, ESA LISA Pathfinder Project Scientist; Martin Hewitson, LISA Pathfinder Senior Scientist from Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; Stefano Vitale, LISA Technology Package Principal Investigator Investigator, University of Trento
LISA Pathfinder is a technology demonstrator for the observation of gravitational waves from space.